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Summary

volleyball is a type of sport[1]. volleyball ranks in the top 3% of type of sport entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (49,126 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Discoverer or inventor: William G. Morgan[3]
  • Instance of: hobby[4]
  • Subclass of: ball game[5], team sport[6]
  • Commons category: Volleyball[7]
  • Unicode character: 🏐[8]
  • Country of origin: United States[9]
  • Inception: 1947[10]
  • Time of discovery or invention: 1895[11]
  • Authority: Fédération Internationale de Volleyball[12]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Volleyball[13]
  • Commons gallery: Volleyball[14]
  • Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Volleyball[15]
  • OpenStreetMap tag: sport=volleyball[16]
  • Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[17]
  • Has characteristic: demonstration sport[18], Olympic sport[19]
  • Minimum number of players: 12[20]
  • Maximum number of players: 12[21]
  • Different from: Volleyball[22]
  • History of topic: history of volleyball[23]
  • Uses: volleyball[24], volleyball court[25], volleyball rules[26]
  • Permanent duplicated item: Q27136411[27]
  • Practiced by: volleyball player[28], volleyball coach[29], volleyball team[30]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[31]
  • Model item: volleyball team[32]

Why It Matters

volleyball has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[33] volleyball is known by 52 alternative names across languages and contexts.[34]

Related Entities

Bartosz Kurek Bernardo Rezende Borgarnes Charlotte Flair Clube Desportivo das Aves Đula Mešter Earvin Ngapeth Ellen van Dijk Elwin Huaman Giba Ivan Zaytsev Karolos Papoulias Maluma Nikolai Patrushev Queen Suthida Tijana Bošković United States Václav Klaus William G. Morgan Yekaterina Gamova

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . cdm16122.contentdm.oclc.org. cdm16122.contentdm.oclc.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [33] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [34] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 6d ago · Powerek38 · 2026-10-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Eska.pl topic id → tg-G3NB-utyJ-LR1o
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Eska.pl topic id: tg-G3NB-utyJ-LR1o, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/250720100|siatkówka (#250720100)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7420|eska.pl topi"
  2. 8d ago · Wif70068 · 2026-10-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'als', 'an', 'ang', 'ar', 'ary', 'arz', 'as', 'ast', 'az', 'azb', 'ba', '
    Subclass of → ball game, team sport
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Subclass of: racket sport"
  3. 4w ago · ならちゃん · 2026-09-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Nhk one news topic id → E0000000258
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/54972|batch #54972]]"
  4. 6w ago · Ksn.kenny · 2026-09-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    National library of spain spmabn id (bne v1.0) → XX526198
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ National library of spain spmabn id (bne v1.0): XX526198"
  5. 6w ago · IdeasMagnet · 2026-09-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Openstreetmap node id → 13520418911
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Openstreetmap node id: 13520418911, Adding OSM node id claim from wikidata tag on node/13520418911 in United States"
  6. 9w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → Colombian Championship 1979
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48943|batch #48943]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM tags"
  7. 15w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 1e0prW
    Svt play id → kategori/volleyboll
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  8. 18w ago · Yirba · 2026-06-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14537 → z89k4j6, zqk89qt, zty3ycw +2
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ P14537: z89k4j6, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/294227930|Volleyball (#294227930)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/8060|‎BBC Bitesize topics"
  9. 18w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → volleyball
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: volleyball, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289967369|volleyball (#289967369)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #m"
  10. 19w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0004391-volejbal
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0004391-volejbal, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259493|batch #259493]]"
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